Montgomery Advertiser's Duane Rankin and Matthew Stevens discuss former Auburn player and assistant coach Chuck Person's arrest for six federal charges stemming from a federal investigation into the pay-for-play corruption in college basketball.

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AUBURN – The Auburn University athletics department has been issued a subpoena from a federal grand jury regarding the ongoing investigation into college basketball.

Multiple Auburn officials confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser on Thursday that the department’s hired legal counsel office, Lightfoot, Franklin & White in Birmingham received the subpoena Wednesday. However, athletics officials would only say the subpoena seeks a wide spectrum range of documents and data from athletic department personnel.

Auburn president Steven Leath during the NCAA football game between Auburn and Mississippi State on ...more

Auburn president Steven Leath during the NCAA football game between Auburn and Mississippi State on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017 in Auburn, Ala.

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A spokesperson for the university president’s office confirmed that president Steven Leath was aware of the athletics department being issued the subpoena and added that "Auburn has pledged full cooperation with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York."

Leath confirmed on Sept. 26 that he met with FBI agents on the morning of the arrest of Chuck Person and several others connected to this corruption scheme involving college basketball. However, Leath told ESPN and made a public statement that day that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York assured him the university and the school’s athletics department wasn't the target of their investigation.

Leath has also confirmed Auburn athletics officials have identified the two unnamed men’s basketball players mentioned in the federal complaint against Person but currently no players on the Auburn men’s basketball roster have been declared ineligible by either Auburn’s compliance office or the NCAA Eligibility Center.

The Los Angeles Timeswas the first to report Wednesday that a grand jury in New York issued sweeping subpoenas to the four schools whose assistant coaches have been charged in the scandal including Arizona, Southern California, Oklahoma State and Auburn.

The Times reported two unnamed sources confirmed Wednesday on Southern California athletics officials turning over computer data used by Tony Bland, the associate head coach facing charges that include soliciting a bribe and wire fraud, along with data from head coach Andy Enfield and assistants Jason Hart and Chris Capko.

Person is charged with six federal crimes including bribery conspiracy, solicitation of bribes and gratuities, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and travel act conspiracy. Person’s arrest was part of four NCAA assistant basketball coaches indicted by federal authorities in a fraud and corruption scheme that included managers, financial advisers and representatives of a major international sportswear company.

According to federal documents detailing the FBI investigation into corruption involving pay-for-play schemes of several college basketball coaches, Person allegedly received $91,500 in bribery payments in a scheme to steer two unnamed Auburn players to a certain agents and financial advisers. Person and Rashan Michel, a former NBA and NCAA official and current custom clothing distributor, who is also named as a defendant in the charges, agreed to accept approximately $50,000 in bribe payments from an undercover federal agent.

Person, who was immediately suspended without pay by the school, was released on $100,000 bond Tuesday after making an appearance in U.S. District Court in New York. If found guilty of the charges, Person faces a maximum sentence of 80 years in federal prison.